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Yes, it's a fight over a backpack - how it was seized, how it was searched, and whether the gun and notebook found inside will be tossed or kept as knockout-blow evidence in a future murder trial. But Luigi Mangione's ongoing evidence suppression hearing, playing out for two weeks in a Manhattan courtroom, is more than that. The serious legal battle features an often amusing undercard bout: repeatedsparring over nothing more than the naming of things.

The fact is that the majority of people in the sex trade mostly young women, some barely out of their teens were coerced, tricked, or trafficked, or forced by socio-economic circumstances as children and young adults into a life that they would never have chosen for themselves. Many remain trapped, even if they can escape their trafficker, because they don't have other options.

The redesign proposed by the Department of Transportation would have alleviated conditions that led to a galling 178 injuries between 2020-2024, making the street in the top 10 percent of most dangerous in the area. The plan provided for daylighting corners - a treatment that increases visibility in the crosswalk - as well as painted pedestrian islands (I would have preferred cement, but anything is better than what we have now). Travel lanes would have been narrowed, which is an effective way to lower speeds.

Outgoing City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams will not bring a measure to implement universal daylighting, which would eliminate parking near intersections to make them safer, to a vote before the end of the body's current session. Her decision drew a sharp rebuke from safe streets advocates on Thursday who say the bill's passage is essential toward increasing street safety for pedestrians and drivers alike.

A Port Authority bus slammed into a building in Midtown during the Thursday evening rush hour, amNewYork has learned. The bus crashed into scaffolding and appears to have made contact with a building on Lexington Avenue and 41st Street. The incident occurred at approximately 4:15 p.m. on Dec. 11, just before sunset. So far, sources close to the incident have reported that one person appears to be injured.

Detectives in Brooklyn are questioning a man who allegedly slashed a commuter in the face on board a subway train Thursday morning following an argument, police reported. The incident happened on a Manhattan-bound A train as it rolled into the Nostrand Avenue station at about 11:40 a.m. on Dec. 11. According to police sources, a 51-year-old man was sitting inside a train car when a 19-year-old man took the seat next to him.

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Law enforcement sources the bloody incident unfolded at 2:25 p.m. on Dec. 9 on board a Bx38 MTA bus approaching Bartow and Gunther Avenues in Baychester. Sources familiar with the case said the two suspects approached the 15-year-old boy and began arguing with him because they didn't like the way he was looking at them. Seconds later, cops said, one of the attackers punched and kicked the boy, and the other perpetrator stabbed him in the chest multiple times with a sharp object.

The driver of a minivan hit and killed a philanthropist who was cycling north up Riverside Drive in Washington Heights late on Sunday, according to friends and cops. Cops say the wreck unfolded a little after 9 p.m. on Sunday at Riverside Drive and 158th Street when a 37-year-old driver of a white Toyota minivan struck the 78-year-old biker from behind. The driver remained at the scene and has not been charged. The investigation is ongoing, the NYPD said.

A serial burglar who racked up 17 previous arrests stole dough out of a Brooklyn synagogue and then used the subway tracks for his unsuccessful escape route, police said Wednesday. Career criminal Arthur Jack, 55, crept into Congregation Shaarei Zion of Bobov and snatched $285 from a locked donation box around 4:45 a.m. Wednesday near 15th Avenue and 48th Street in Borough Park, according to cops.

a stranger suddenly approached me and screamed, Free Palestine. You are all genocidal baby killers. You all need to get the f*** out of Israel! My only crime? Wearing a yarmulke. No other Jewish identifier or Israel memorabilia was on my person. I was lucky this encounter ended with words. Earlier this month, an Israeli Jew was beaten so severely outside a Manhattan kosher restaurant that he suffered a brain bleed.

The best restaurants in New York are not the places that cater to foodie tourists and billionaire gastronomes - not necessarily and certainly not exclusively. They're the ones that balance quality, utility, and ambience in a way that makes them places to go once or go often with an acknowledgment that sometimes it's your anniversary and you need to ball out, and sometimes it's just another Wednesday.

From day one, our administration's North Star has been public safety. We have gone to work to sweep out crime and illegal activities from our neighborhoods, and because of this work, we are currently in our eighth consecutive quarter of crime reductions. That means for almost two straight years since January 2024 crime has consistently declined each quarter in New York City. But public safety is about more than just policing. To make sure our communities feel safe and are safe, we must make smart, upstream investments that prevent crime in the first place. We must invest in our young people and provide them with safe places away from gun violence. Places to just be kids, and to play and build trust with law enforcement.

There was so much news yesterday (see below), but we loved this academic study out of Cornell that revealed that in the first six months of the Congestion Pricing program, air pollution - in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller - dropped by 22 percent in the toll zone and also in the city's five boroughs and surrounding suburbs.

Throughout my career, I have been a huge supporter of empowering tenants to become homeowners, which is why it may seem odd that I do not support Intro. 902, or the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA). New York City absolutely needs to advance tenant and non-profit ownership, but I do not believe COPA is the way to achieve this laudable goal.

The DSNY issued a Dec. 4 proposal to amend its rule governing the time for placing trash and recyclables at the curb for collection. The amendment would allow residents who receive collection on Saturdays to put their trash out in a container an hour before sunset the night before. A neighborhood's local community board would have to opt into the schedule; it is not an option for individual homeowners.

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New York City will probably soon see three new casinos, whose owners could rake in profits because of a recent surge in gambling in the United States that has some campaigners worried. The New York gaming facility location board this week approved three proposed casinos in the US's largest city two in Queens and one in the Bronx after determining the businesses would create new jobs and generate billions in tax revenue, according to the group's report.

The Archdiocese of New York will use money from real estate sales, staff layoffs and budget reductions to set up a $300 million fund to pay for a settlement with 1,300 people who accused its priests and staff of sexual assault as it enters a 60-day mediation process with victim attorneys, the country's second-largest archdiocese announced Monday. In a public statement, Cardinal Timothy Dolon said its his hope and prayer, the archdiocese can provide victim-survivors with the most financial compensation possible to help heal [their] wounds.